US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 6 for "Method and apparatus for homogenizing magnetostatic field generated from superconducting magnet" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,492, issued on May 6, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for homogenizing magnetostatic field generated from superconducting magnet" was invented by Hajime Tanabe (Okayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: calculating a first optimum quantity of ferromagnetic arranged at each position so that each error component of a magnetic field distribution in a specific space satisfies a first restriction condition (S33, S34); discretizing, for each position, the first optimum quantity (S35); calculating the error components that are obtained when ferromagnetic having a qua...